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I won't get that damn song out of my head all afternoon now, you insensitive clod!

> just find some artist that you like, who is willing to give their work away for free.
> There's plenty of homeless people with guitars and horns that you can listen to.

Wow, that's one hell of a strawman... haven't you conveniently forgotten the growing, ever growing, numbers of independent professional and semi-professional musicians fueled by new options for making money from their music who many of us, like me, are willing to pay?

The record labels haven't forgotten, they're running scared and wreaking havoc with our society...

<sarcasm>Quite a few of those homeless musicians are probably still signed on record company contracts and aren't able to legally sell us their music as independents, poor guys!</sarcasm>

Now go read this article about well-intentioned young men, bravely and I would even say heroically volunteering to put their lives on the line... to defend what? That pack of thieves, liars, crooks and lunatics? To treat such courage and dedication with the contempt that this junta has done makes me truly sick.

I think it's supposed to be ironic.

And Tom Waits.

4 - is most likely false. However, in thanks - we get call blocking that works.
7 - at least than US beer. However - US beer DOES taste better than US pop - and is as alcoholic. *grin*

also - with (3) - a surprising number of our politicians are honest. You can also talk to them if you want.

Lots of other cool stuff too of course. Canada's really cool.
And don't forget Canada is Really Big!

"to any citizen who believes in a free and open society, I'll be EXTRA worried when they outlaw encryption..."

Oddly enough until recently it was standard practice for western governments to "outlaw encryption". Before public key encryption came along some of the 'founding farthers' of computer science had worked out how to crack most types of encryption with relative ease and on the side they built computers with meccano sets that calculated trajectory tables.

As a direct result of the German and Japaneese "enigma" machines that they reverse engineered the allies were able to manipulate submarines into surfacing where they wanted thus keeping the Atlantic open for the merchant navy, the icing on the cake came when they used the same methods to put the Japanese fleet in the desired position for the allied ambush at the battle of Midway.

The tragedy is that after the war href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing">Alan Turing was hounded by his own goverment because he was homosexual to the extent of being chemically castrated by order of the court, officially he suicided but it is also possible he was murdered or accidently poisioned himself (like any self respecting geek he kept chemicals in the kitchen fridge).

Encryption technology was (still is?) regarded as a "munition", you could (still can?) be charged with treason here in Australia and the US/UK had (have?) similar rules. Exporting encryption software from the US was a big deal in the early 90's, the guy who came up with PGP had plenty of hassles in this area and there was mass confusion by MS and others about the strength of the encryption that could be exported (IBM had been working with spooks for decades and did not seem to be as confused). First you were not allowed to export anything, then it was restiricted to 48bit, then it was 128bit, I lost track after 1028bit because the government basically gave up trying to control it in the mid nineties, it was simply too usefull to banks in particular and bussiness in general.

IMHO the PGP guy deserves some of the credit for bringing the issue to light but it was inevitable that governments would lose interest in "outlawing" encryption since with modern encryption methods, having access to the algorithm does not help you to decrypt the text without the private key, and the public key only allows you to encryt text - it's a whole other kind of "enigma" to the ones solved at Betchly Park and elsewhere. Once you have the algorithim you can make the bit strength anything you like and IIRC the algorithim has been public knowledge since the 70's. Probably the last vestige of these laws that is noticable today is reflected in the difficulty and often illeaglity of encrypting voice communications without some sort of government key escrow.

To sum up: Freedom is a state of mind, everything else is constrained by the shackles and barbs of society.

Trivia: It has been speculated that the apple logo is a tribute to Turing because he died from eating an apple contaminated with cyanide.

would be happy with the (apparent?) hypocrisy of EMI:
Don't judge a book by the cover
Unless you cover just another
And blind acceptance is a sign
Of stupid fools who stand in line
Like
E.m.i

Oh god, you're so on the money you have *got* to be a fellow martyr to the great god Infosec. I know you, my brother... just trying to make yr way in the world, striving to bring a glimmer of clue here and there where you pass; spurned by your peers, ridiculed by the suits as a geek and by the geeks as a fascist obsessed with generating Policies at the expense of actually putting hand to keyboard... you spend your days in conference rooms, trying to find another analogy to explain the concept of plaintext and packet sniffing to another bunch of disinterested project managers and architects, and your evenings reviewing designs and draft standards that make you want to beat your brains out on the table before you...

We should form a club, you know. "The Anonymous Order of Corporate Infosec Drones". Of course we could never meet or use our real names, as that would inhibit us from sharing our horror stories.

God help me, I found myself identifying with a Dire Straits song the other day.

Perhaps it's time to look at another change of career... or employer. There are places that take security seriously, aren't there, over yonder, over the Jordan in the land of CISSP? Tell me it's true, reverend, I beg you; give me hope to face another futile dawn over the cubicles. Help me save the odd half-an-afternoon at the weekend, that I may labour diligently over my textbooks, save the money to take the damn exam myself, and get my arse somewhere that would take it seriously??

The trouble is that organisations that take seriously wouldn't employ me. Catch 22.

:(

" Cake, and grief counseling. "

Close but no cigar.

How does one measure a firemans performance?

Books burned per hour?

Actually the metric I was thinking of is applicable to both firemen and help desk slaves: median and 95th percentile time to resolution of a call. Only difference is in exactly how the call is resolved. Different kinds of calls vary wildly in scale though: perhaps group them into buckets by issue type (single-family home, apartment building, brushfire, towering inferno, unauthorized possession of reading material, etc.) Median gives you a typical value, 95th percentile points out peaks and trouble spots while allowing you to throw out some outliers.

courtesy Black Sabbath, ca. 1975

Im looking through a hole in the sky
Im seeing nowhere through the eyes of a lie
Im getting closer to the end of the line
Im living easy where the sun doesnt shine

Im living in a room without any view
Im living free because the rents never due
The synonyms of all the things that Ive said
Are just the riddles that are built in my head

Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly

Ive seen the stars disappear in the sun
The shootings easy if youve got the right gun
And even though Im sitting waiting for mars
I dont believe theres any future in cause

Hole in the sky, take me to heaven
Window in time, through it I fly
Yeah

Ive watched the dogs of war enjoying their feast
Ive seen the western world go down in the east
The food of love became the greed of our time
But now Im living on the profits of pride

Oh man, Joe Jackson would have a field day with that...

--
Toro

Gotta keep those lovin good vibrations
A happenin with her
Gotta keep those lovin good vibrations
A happenin with her
Gotta keep those lovin good vibrations
A happenin

They left the planets long ago
The elder race still learn and grow
Their power grows with purpose strong
To claim the home where they belong

Yup, it's about time we sent the Scorpions into space.... maybe they'll get Hit Between the Eyes?

There's no Sieg Heil in One Vision

BTW zeig means show, thus zeig heil sounds like a religious message, because it means "show salvation".

Also, you shouldn't be a 21st century man. You should be a 21st century digital boy because it sounds so much better.

Seriously, I have been going to various stores, every once in a while, asking them when their next batch is due. Most either don't know and tell you, that you have to call almost every day to find out and then they are usually sold in a couple of hours.

That reminds me of something.

And I think to myself.... what a wonderful world

I would like to buy an "e" please.

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/f/frank+zappa/jesus+thi nks+youre+a+jerk_20056591.html

To be honest so does Arizona, but it's still a couple of days from Chicago if your traveling less than double the limit. And to be even more honest, it's even better to travel by train. It's the only way to fly. Every bit as nice as a Caribbean cruise. That only thing that really stinks now is using the airlines. All the joy is gone. I never dreamed in all my days that anything could approach the horrors of Greyhound, but there you are. Oh well, as the old saying goes, ...you don't know what you've got till its gone.

I see your penis has been rated redundant. How does that make you feel?

And, when you get sick of the media circus, call up local radio stations and request that they play Don Henley's Dirty Laundry.

I, too, prefer peace to war, but those who do not take action when needed, however distasteful, are condemning themselves or their children to slavery. From a song by Leslie Fish about a man who prays for peace and gets it. You deserve to hear it sung; it is a beautiful piece.

...

CHORUS:
The sun is also a warrior.
Knowledge can also destroy.
Nor can the kindest will,
Preserve you from the kill.
Not all of wisdom brings joy.

He raised his voice and he raised his hand.
All strife stopped at the god's command.
No voice ventured an angry word,
No hand struck and no weapon stirred.
In time, the man called the old god back.
"Look," he cried, "what my people lack!
One lord rules over all the earth,
And we're all his slaves from the hour of birth.

CHORUS

"Look, he owns all wealth, and he owns all land,
We starve and die under his command.
He speaks the truth and he gives us peace,
But all that I hope for is our release."
The old god said, "This is what you willed.
For only thus is your wish fulfilled.
War's five sources I took away,
Yet I will give four of them back today."

Full lyrics at: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leslie+fish/the+sun+i s+also+a+warrior_20277971.html

So in kindergarten and below they can be renamed iPoddy? "Look teacher, no hands."

Seriously though, the first song that should be loaded onto all of them should be The Wall

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/judas+priest/electric +eye_20076160.html

The IP Address is: 76.208.2.84. The host name is:
adsl-76-208-2-84.dsl.sbndin.sbcglobal.net

They're living on a ranch in Montana now.

"Gonna be a dental floss tycoon"

Problems with freedom of choice are apparently cross-species, according to these, um, philosophers.

You think?

Man! And they complain about rap music!

You think?

Man! And they complain about rap music!

I seriously thought you were going to start singing this near the end there.

Regardless of whether we are ready for a woman president. Hillary is definitely the wrong woman. She's a brute, just like the rest. If we want a woman president, we should find one that thinks like a woman, not one that just trying to be "one of the guys". Her "stand" on privacy is just another ruse, and looks like it has half of Slashdot fished in. I guess that means it's working. Just watch how any posts that criticize her are modded. She's a beast and should be sent back to Arkansas. If she wins the nomination, it's just more proof that nothing was learned over the last eight years. It will remain "business as usual". If I decide it's worth it, I'll post some evidence. In the meantime look at her voting record, and maybe some of her real estate deals, and what the hell, her sex life, too. You never know. She could have a "back-door bubba".

Cause theres a man down there, might be your man I dont know

. . .is this based on some other lyric?

You must new here; and I don't mean at Slashdot.

It's a parody of Paul Simon's "The Boxer":

The Boxer Lyric

Normally I just toss these things out as stream of conciousness fragments and then forget about them, but I might save this one and do a proper workup of it. It seems to have potential.

KFG

They just listened to too much Iron Maiden.

(Seriously, though, I never bothered to listen to what that song was about. They're highbrow folks, those Maiden fellers, aint they?)

"You're in trouble the first time you try selling the water bag to someone whose car you repaired a few weeks previously."

Well, duh :)

A good con man always remembers the mark... Not stepping in it is all part of the dodge. Most times, during those days, it was one way, and the odds of seeing the same mark were pretty low. Families and individuals going to California to make a new start for their future, right after the war, were all part of an influx that would last for decades.

U-Haul celebrated 60 successful years in 2005, which puts them in business starting in 1945. The 'American Dream' that drove the migration west kept U-Haul busy and growing, and it wasn't until 1987 before their records revealed more equipment leaving California than was going in.

I find myself in the market for a new laptop; The 17 inchers are at the top of my list. But dual booting with Vista raises some serioius questions. As the Clash said, "Should I Stay (dual boot), or Should I Go (Windows has forked to a broken path)." The author puts forth an excellent argument that my parents would understand, "Vista is pretty much the only game in town." I do not think that I can agree with them because of the cost of diminishing returns. I use Windows for testing web pages, Zone Alarm, Partition Magic, CIV4, and Flight Sim; 40 gigs is enough. My concern is to have Vista upgrade XP, without corrupting my Linux install. Can I do this? Can Vista play nice with Linux on the same machine. Only time will tell the truth.

If you have been swept up by the Rails craze or are even just a casual fan, you have probably been waiting for the terrific books to start rolling in.

Me thinks someone has been listening to Ozzy one too many times today...

Woodstock was in 1969, and the idea that essentially all life is recycled through supernova explosions was already established strongly enough in popular culture for it to appear in Joni Mitchel's wonderful Woodstock lyrics:


We are stardust
Billion year old carbon
We are golden


Although we know quite a bit more now than then, TFA is recycling really old news. :-)

Finally, science to back up the art of "kiss it to make it better".

Love is the drug for me!

"An" anti-christ. I love how you make up new definitions just so you can insult people.

I could have sworn that the africanized honeybees were immune to the mites? I must be wrong...

Ever hear the Joni Mitchell song that goes, "Hey farmer farmer, take away the DDT now. Give me spots on apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please."

BTW - the song is called Big Yellow Taxi...

I thought Nirvana created Lithium!

One way to do that is to say, to Japan, "You interfere, and we'll nuke Tokyo". That could quite well get the Japanese to deny the U.S. use of Okinawa

Mr. Keenan says it best.

So, Mick Jagger is an alien, QED.

For that matter, guess they could go after some of the classics then too like The Stones' Midnight Rambler .

Heck guess we could nix Brown Sugar too:

"Scarred old slaver know's he's doing alright...hear him whip the women just around midnight..."

For that matter, guess they could go after some of the classics then too like The Stones' Midnight Rambler .

Heck guess we could nix Brown Sugar too:

"Scarred old slaver know's he's doing alright...hear him whip the women just around midnight..."